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Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March — Apple's not holding an event in February. But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad. — Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2 and will do so at one of its trademark special events.

Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture — One of the notable aspects of Microsoft Windows has been the flexibility the architecture has shown through shifts in technology and expansion of customer usage over time. What started out as an operating system for one person working solo …

Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service — Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Like Dropbox, Google's storage service …

Google Developing Home Entertainment System — Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand, according to people briefed on the company's plans. — The effort marks the Internet company's …

LinkedIn Just Hit 150 Million Registered Users — LinkedIn now has more than 150 million registered users, the company announced today. — Around 6.1 million LinkedIn members live in New York — more than any other state — and more than 5 million of them are based in the city, according to the company.

Steve Jobs' FBI File Released — The FBI has released, and posted on its web site, Steve Jobs' 191-page FBI file. Read it here. The file consists of a 1991 background investigation conducted when Jobs was being considered for an appointment to the President's Export Council in the Bush I White House …

Google Social is Exploding Online! — Now that the dust has settled from the initial launch of Google+ it is time for some analysis of the social network's functionality and popularity. No doubt people are extremely excited with the new release of Google's social platform …

The tone of life on social networking sites — Summary of findings — The overall social and emotional climate of social networking sites (SNS) is a very positive one where adult users get personal rewards and satisfactions at far higher levels than they encounter anti-social people or have ill consequences from their encounters.

Zuckerberg Takes Control, You Get $100 — Mark Zuckerberg must be one persuasive deal maker. — After eight years, Mr. Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, has an ironclad grip on the social networking giant. He owns 28.4 percent of all class B shares …

Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale — It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android? — From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge. — It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) …

End of an era: Kodak discontinues camera business — Eastman Kodak has shocked the world today, announcing that it has put an end to its camera business. — By the end of June, Kodak expects to phase out its digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames, the company announced today.

File Sharing in the Post MegaUpload Era — On January 18, 2012 global file sharing traffic collapsed. In a series of coordinate raids, US and New Zealand authorities seized thousands of MegaUpload servers and arrested its founder (at his own birthday party, no less).

AT&T Says Throttling Policy Isn't as Bad as You Think — Last year, AT&T warned smartphone customers with unlimited data plans that it may temporarily reduce their Internet connection speeds if they were in the “top 5 percent” of heaviest data users. Only recently have some customers begun …

Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx review — THE DROID RAZR GETS A LITTLE THICKER AND A LOT LONGER-LASTING — Reviewing the Droid RAZR Maxx presents an interesting challenge: in many ways it's the exact same device as the Droid RAZR, which was introduced just a few short months ago.